Songbird
Songbird is a
complete desktop media player or "jukebox" with a
uniquely open approach to Internet digital media network services.
Songbird views web pages as dynamic playlists to play, save, download
or subscribe to.
Songbird plays your music too with all the features
you’d expect in a desktop media player.
Like Firefox,
Songbird's features may be improved with user installed and contributed
cross-platform extensions. These include Qloud Tagging &
Search, eMusic Integration, iTunes Importer, iPod Device, Artist
Tracker, Library File
Organizer, Audioscrobbler Notifier, Wikipedia Artist Display, SHOUTcast
Radio Directory, UnPlug, Adblock Plus, Taglib metadata handler and
Minimize-to-Systemtray.
Previous software
written by the developers of Songbird include Winamp and the Yahoo!
Music Engine.
Songbird 1.2.0
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Price
Free to download
Size
18.6MB
License
GNU GPL
Developer
Pioneers of the Inevitable
Website
getsongbird.com
System Requirements
Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or later with the following libraries or packages:
o glibc 2.3.2 or later
o XFree86-3.3.6 or later
o gtk+2.0 or later
o fontconfig (also known as xft)
o libstdc++6
Songbird has been tested on Fedora Core 5 and Ubuntu Dapper 6.06.
Minimum Hardware:
500 MHz Intel Pentium III or AMD K6-III+ CPU
At least 5124 MB of RAM
At least 200 MB of available space on your hard drive
16 bit sound card (Recommended: 32 bit sound card)
Speakers or headphones
Support
Sites:
Selected
Reviews:
TechNewsWorld,
Paul
Stamatiou, blogspot.com
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Features include:
- Built-in SHOUTcast directory browser
- Plays multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis,
FLAC and Windows Media Audio
- Plays Apple FairPlay encoded audio on Windows and Mac
platforms via hooks into Quicktime (Authorization takes place in iTunes)
- A skinnable interface, via feathers
- Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up
as playable files in Songbird
- Built in RSS subscription and MP3 file download
- Subscribe to mp3 blogs as playlists
- User created bookmarks
- Build custom mixes
- Scan the user's computer for all audio files and add them
to a local library
- An easily configurable and collapsible graphical user
interface similar to iTunes, and miniplayer mode
- Keyboard shortcuts & media keyboard support
- Automatic updates
- eMusic integration using the eMusic Integration plugin
- Insound.com and HypeMachine integration
- Multi-Language support
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Songbird also features in our 'LinuxEquivalents
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Last Updated Tuesday, February 14 2012 @ 03:35 PM EST
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